If Men Did Housework

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

The work praises the man. - Irish Proverb

The best way to hold a man is in your arms. - Mae West

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. - Charles Lamb

Every man believes he has a greater possibility. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? - Phyllis Diller

As Unto The Bow The Cord Is, So Unto The Man Is Woman - Longfellow

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy. - William Warburton

Lord, Lord! How subject we old men are to this vice of lying. - William Shakespeare

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. - Ogden Nash

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? - Ernest Hemingway

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. - Oscar Wilde

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. - Bernard Baruch

A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink. - WC Fields

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. - Sir William Hamilton

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to Les Folies Bergere and looks at the audience. - Mervyn Stockwood

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. - Samuel Smiles

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. - Michelle Dockery

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. - George S Patton

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. - Plautus

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. - Fred Allen

A woman should cleave into her husband. Right here in this house is where Edith's cleavage belongs. - Archie Bunker

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. - Edgar W Howe

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it. - Owen D. Young

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches. - Benjamin Franklin

“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place. - Emily Dickinson

Never play cards with a man called Doc, never eat at a place called Mom's, and never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. - Nelson Algren

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. - Seneca